# Help with Features of Kibana Interactive filters

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-features-of-kibana-interactive-filters/277587
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 1, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-features-of-kibana-interactive-filters/277587 "2021-07-01T18:27:27Z")
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### Author: ![Jason2073](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jason2073](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jason2073)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-features-of-kibana-interactive-filters/277587/1 "2021-07-01T18:27:27Z")

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I am working with the kibana controls panels, pictured here

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/1/51fd4e5cb8cf60eabeef00809d1ca8fa691680fc.png)

And some functionality seems very restrictive. I want to have these drop down options to be put in any order, and for the options under the others to update with apropriate options.

For example, If I select the Environment to be DEV only workstations with DEV environment should be available for selection. There is a way to set a parent child relationship between two of the dropdowns, but if I wanted to do this back the other way (select the workstations first then environment) I would need to create an entirely new panel.

If there is another way I can do this, or a way of making a panel that can create custom filters or KQL queries from inputs in the dashboard that would be fantastic. Thank you!

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### Author: ![Mik\_a](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mik_a/32/78256_2.png) [@Mik\_a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mik_a)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-features-of-kibana-interactive-filters/277587/2 "2021-07-02T07:30:34Z")

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I'm not sure this will help, but you can move the order up and down (in right side when building filters). Then you could put Enviroment first and as parent

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### Author: ![Jason2073](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jason2073](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jason2073)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-features-of-kibana-interactive-filters/277587/3 "2021-07-03T16:50:24Z")

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Thanks for the response, What you described is the setup i have currently. I just have the same set of fields filtered in different orders, but this is really clunky, I want there to be a way to make them all update when any of them are done. That way i dont need 4! pannels with the same 4 drop downs.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-features-of-kibana-interactive-filters/277587/4 "2021-07-31T16:50:38Z")

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